Improvement in harness-saddles



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, UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE. s

" `.IoIIN o. ToEIAsjoE MIDDLEroEr, ILLINOIS, AssIGNoa To HI'MsELE, AND

HENRY C. KIRK, OF WHITE COUNTY, INDIANA.

`IM eRovEMEN- r IN` HARNESS-SADDLES.

` Specification forming ,part of Letters `Patent No. 35,656, datcdJline 17, 1862.

Beit known that l,rJoHN C. ToBIAs, of Middleport, in the `county. of Iroquois and State of Illinois, have inventeda new and Improved "Self-Adjusting .Saddle `or Pad-Tree for Harnesses; andI do hereby declare that thejfol- "lowing isa full, clear, and exact description of the same; reference being had tothe annexed drawings, making a" part of this specification,

l Fguremlf-is afront view of myinvention, "a

portion being` bsected, as indicated by the line am?, Fig. 2; "Fig, 2, a plan or top view of the "A A are twometalplates, the form of which "proceed to` describe it. I

` is shown clearly in-Fig.' 2. These plates have a flange, ya, turned down all around their edge, and each plateAhas` a longitudinal slot, b, made throughit near its inner end.

` p B B are plates, `which are tted at the under sides of the plates A A, andwithin their flangesa, the plates Bfbeing secured to A by the screws bjof the terrets or.rein-guides c l andsupplemental` screws d, `which pass respectively through 'nuts ee, attached to the C G are pads, the covers f of Vwhichlap over A the edges of theplates B and fit between them and plates A, `the screws b d rmly securing the edges of the coveringof the pads between fthe plates. `The pads are stuffed in the usual or in anyproper Way.

D represents a curved or bow-shaped metal link w-hich connects the two plates, A A, together. l secured to its upper part at its center, and to each end of the link at its under side a cross bar, h, is attached. These cross-bars havea position at right angles with the link and serve as hooks to form the connection between the linkand plates A A. These cross-bars h are inserted in the plates A by placing them in line with the slots b, and passing them through said slots and then turning the link aroundin proper position. This Inode of connection, it will be seen, allows the plates AA a requisite degree of play, so that the saddle or tree may yieldor give to the movements of the animal in traveling and also conform to the shape of I the animalthat is tosay, the two plates A A and pads attached may assume a greater or less inclination, as may be required, in order to admit of the proper fitting of the pads to the back of the animal. Y

The device,it` will be seen,may be very readily and cheaply constructed, and there are no parts liable to becomederanged by use.

Having thus described my invention,l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- As an improved article of manufacture, a

harness-saddle or pad-tree composed of plates A B, pad C, and cover f, made and `united in the manner herein shownand described.

JOHN C. TOBIAS.

This link has a check-rein hook, g, Il 

